A black man in Memphis was beaten to death by five police officers, and people, prominent Christians included, are blaming whiteness. Are they right? We ll look at this epic moment, as well as the performance of another athlete, a self-described ice skating princess, whose performance didn t go quite as well. Then we ll look to that new statue in New York, and contrast the demonic artwork of today to the beautiful art of the past.
00:01:21.760Let's just go ahead and get right into this.
00:01:23.700First, I want to talk about this horrible story in the news about a man named Tyree Nichols.
00:01:30.020So on January 7th of this year, Nichols was beaten to death by five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee.
00:01:39.160Nichols' interaction with the police that night, if you don't already know about this story, I'm going to give you some of this background,
00:01:45.240started with an attempted traffic stop, allegedly for reckless driving.
00:01:50.660The police chief has since said she doesn't actually know if this allegation is true, but that's what the police officers are saying, that he was recklessly driving.
00:02:00.320And when they pulled him over, Nichols ran from the police who pursued them and ultimately apprehended him.
00:02:06.860Then, as we saw in gruesome body cam footage that was released on Friday night, the five officers that apprehended Nichols beat him to death,
00:02:18.760literally just took turns beating him into a pulp.
00:02:22.020He apparently calls out to his mother at one point in this incident, I could not stomach watching the whole thing.
00:02:33.580I cannot imagine like the fear and the pain of feeling that vulnerable, of looking around at those five faces as a human being and thinking,
00:02:43.040I'm going to die and there's nothing that I can do about it.
00:02:46.860I can't imagine also how callous you have to be to intentionally hurt someone and then to keep hurting them.
00:02:55.220Like most of us, if we accidentally bump into someone in the hallway, we profusely apologize.
00:03:01.500Like if you accidentally tripped someone, you're walking on the sidewalk and they fell, you would feel terrible.
00:03:06.940You would do everything that you could to make sure that that person is okay, that stranger that you don't even know.
00:03:10.980So what depth of heartlessness is required in a person to knowingly and purposely hurt a defenseless person to the point of death?
00:03:20.040And I ask myself that question a lot when I see these stories of senseless violence.
00:03:25.140Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens or not badge or happens a lot badge or not.
00:03:58.220But the officer's response in this case is not at all proportionate to Nichols running away.
00:04:04.540This was an intentional, malicious, continual beating of an unarmed person, completely unnecessary.
00:04:12.860And just by the way, Daniel Shaver, Justine Damon, Tony Tempa, you might not know their names and we'll talk about why in a second.
00:04:20.400But none of them were resisting arrest.
00:04:22.700And yet they were all murdered by the police.
00:04:24.600So I don't think that just saying, hey, if you comply, everything is going to be fine is always true.
00:04:29.500Now, it goes without saying, for any of you who have been listening to me for any amount of time, I am so thankful for good law enforcement and what they put on the line every day.
00:04:40.060But we should always hold people who hold that much power to high standards of behavior, of integrity.
00:04:48.060And that means that we do not unconditionally support the police as a whole, just as we don't unconditionally support any other profession as a whole.
00:04:57.220We call out good and bad and we hold the bad to account.
00:05:00.880Nichols actually survived this attack.
00:05:04.320He was able to call an ambulance that transported him to the hospital.
00:05:09.340He died of his injuries three days later.
00:05:15.540While Nichols was in critical condition at the hospital, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was contacted to do a use of force investigation in this interaction with his police.
00:05:26.140The officers involved were fired on January 20th.
00:05:29.940They were charged with murder on January 27th.
00:05:33.800And so the bad is being held to account in this case.
00:05:37.640After the body cam footage was released on Friday, there were protests in Memphis and across the country.
00:05:44.900People once again calling to defund the police, to abolish the police.
00:05:49.140And then there's another response to all of this that maybe you expected.
00:05:53.800The condemnation of white supremacy, the insistence that this is yet another consequence of the system of whiteness that has plagued our country for so long, that this is a result of racism.
00:06:09.200You've probably been seeing that take circulating on Instagram and Twitter.
00:06:12.620And this would be a more predictable response if the perpetrators in this crime were not black, but they are all five police officers in this awful, tragic incident are black.
00:06:28.360But here's what Van Jones says at CNN headline.
00:06:32.720The police who killed Tyree Nichols were black and they might still have been driven by racism.
00:06:38.360Quote, society's message that black people are inferior, unworthy and dangerous is pervasive.
00:07:02.020Black police officers abusing young black men in the community is nothing new, he says.
00:07:07.460Now, that's a theme that I actually saw on Twitter over the weekend as I was looking at commentary on this from all different angles.
00:07:13.520Black men on Twitter talking about their negative interactions with the police and how actually most of those interactions have been with black police officers, they're saying.
00:07:21.820Now, these are just anecdotes, but it seems to be echoed by a lot of different kind of people in the media and just in the public.
00:07:29.320And yeah, we are still told this is a problem of racism by white people of white supremacy.
00:07:34.860Activist Brie Newsome said this, quote, diversifying the police force doesn't end racism because racism is inherent to the organization of the institution and its daily operation.
00:07:50.840To which Atlantic writer Jamel Hill replied, I need so many people to understand this regarding Tyree Nichols.
00:07:57.780Several of the officers who murdered Freddie Gray were black.
00:08:01.060The entire system of policing is based on white supremacist violence, she says.
00:08:05.740We see people under the boot of oppression carry its water all the time.
00:08:10.920These are just a few of the many instances of left wing activists arguing on Twitter that five black men beating another black man to death is because of white people.
00:08:20.320This message is also being circulated in the Christian world, namely by an organization called Be the Bridge, which claims to be on a mission to reconcile white and black believers.
00:08:32.980But by my observation, simply adopts, for the most part, left wing, divisive, secular perspectives on race and simply repackages them for a Christian audience.
00:08:44.640I've talked about the biblical issues with Be the Bridge in the past.
00:08:47.580I'll link a blog post by Neil Shinvee, as well as an episode I did with the amazing Monique Dusan about this a while ago.
00:09:18.900When asked about police brutality, theologian William James Jennings says police brutality is an example of sinful disconnect.
00:09:25.080The way whiteness has formed in some people has caused a deep disconnect from their environment and their world and from other people.
00:09:34.640Then they end saying, finally, don't burden your black friends with questions and thoughts.
00:09:40.140Mourn with the black community and remember who you are in their space.
00:09:43.680It is not a moment to center your own thoughts, but bring more volume to our sisters and brothers who are numb, broken, mourning, crying out.
00:09:53.980So this is a consequence of whiteness.
00:09:57.680They say this is an organization that is touted by a lot of evangelical Christians, even those who consider themselves conservative evangelical Christians.
00:10:07.780Now, they would argue that, quote unquote, whiteness doesn't necessarily mean white people, because why would why would anyone possibly think that?
00:10:16.900But they they would say rather that it is whiteness is a system that privileges white people and oppresses black and brown people.
00:10:30.460Even with that definition, the argument is that it was a system built by white people and is upheld today by white people, by white individuals.
00:10:39.780And the allegedly unfair system in place is described by the color of people they claim constructed it.
00:10:47.000So they don't just say the discriminatory system in which we live, which was set up by sinful people.
00:10:52.880They call it whiteness because they hold to this erroneous, literally superstitious belief that virtually all bad things that have happened and continue to happen in the U.S., particularly to black and brown Americans, is because of white people and the system they've deliberately created to maintain power.
00:11:08.980A white supremacist country where white Americans, Chinese Americans, Nigerian Americans, among others, are more financially successful than any other group in the country, a white supremacist country where white Americans are not supreme.
00:11:23.640But we could spend an hour, have spent many hours debunking that claim.
00:11:27.640For now, let's focus on the problem of this, the problem of blaming this horrible incident on whiteness, on white supremacy, on white people, whatever you want to call it.
00:11:40.660First, let's just take a short look at the claim that policing in America is a tool of white oppression.
00:11:47.680Therefore, anyone operating in it is a tool of white oppression, no matter what their color is.
00:11:53.220I read an article on this yesterday to refresh myself on the historical reasons that some people make this claim.
00:12:01.540And I think that there is some there is truth to there being a slave patrol at one point in the United States that used law enforcement as an excuse to re-enslave basically black people post-emancipation, brutal treatment, false accusations, disproportionate punishment for crimes.
00:12:24.820But the claim is that because that existed, mostly in the South, that that is the root of all law enforcement in America today, which is just not true.
00:12:36.220And just because something started one way does not mean that it functions in the same way or serves the same purpose today.
00:12:43.560But even if it did mean that, law enforcement in the U.S. wasn't all started as a slave patrol in all parts of the U.S.
00:12:53.460Law enforcement predates the United States, like it predates the West.
00:12:58.260The first thing that came to mind when I was thinking about law enforcement was Romans 13.
00:13:03.280Romans 13, 4, for he, the government, is God's servant for your good.
00:13:09.280But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain, for he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
00:13:18.600Now, obviously, we know that that does not mean that the government is always good or is always a tool of God's justice.
00:13:24.380That's why in the U.S., we believe that there should be huge checks on government power, including police power, because we know the nature of power is that it corrupts those who have it.
00:13:35.440But that does not mean that there is not a need for the government or not a need for law enforcement.
00:13:41.320God's word clearly says that we do need the state.
00:13:44.120We do need someone to exact punishment for crimes.
00:13:48.080We need the state to enforce the law, to avenge God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
00:13:52.380I reread that right in Romans 13, far before the United States and American slavery ever existed.
00:14:00.560Does that mean that police should be beating defenseless people up?
00:14:05.140But they are an arm of the state to ensure that people are held accountable for doing wrongs so that, according to the U.S. system, after a fair trial, that person bears punishment for their crime.
00:14:15.620So we can acknowledge that at one point the United States had slave patrol and it was bad.
00:14:22.620I am even open to the argument that in some places they routinely use disproportionate force that mirrors the practices in place then.
00:14:30.000But to say that the entire policing system then is a system of evil whiteness, it's just bad logic.
00:14:36.820Sadly, the police abuse power everywhere.
00:14:42.700It is absolutely necessary for safety.
00:14:45.100I don't care what any left winger tries to tell me.
00:14:47.360But when you put power, the power to abuse and to kill in the hands of the wrong people who are untrained or who lack honor, there is going to be injustice.
00:15:01.580In many places, much worse than what we see here.
00:15:04.540In countries where people have never even seen a white person, police and militia oppress the populace.
00:15:09.760Are they also somehow constructs of whiteness?
00:15:15.120Now, there are many in this camp, believe it or not, who would honestly say yes to that question because they believe that all oppression, especially of black people, is a product of racism from white people.
00:15:26.300But that argument, whether you're trying to argue it universally or just here in the U.S., especially by Christians, is as morally repugnant and biblically inaccurate as it is straight up stupid.
00:15:39.760So the argument that black people do bad things and especially bad things to each other, where all the bad things that happen to black people are all because of white people's racism or a white system or whiteness is morally repugnant.
00:16:07.740It's biblically inaccurate and it is also, yes, stupid.
00:16:13.540Black people are humans, are they not?
00:16:28.440That means that they, just the same as me, have agency.
00:16:32.300They have the ability to make good and bad decisions.
00:16:35.140They have the capacity to discern right from wrong and then do it.
00:16:39.360They, just like me, are dead in their sin apart from Christ.
00:16:43.280When they get to the judgment throne, there will be no whiteness excuse for their sins.
00:16:48.060No justification for unrighteousness that falls under the category of but-white supremacy.
00:16:53.900There will be no consideration of melanin count or generational trauma in determining the fate of their soul.
00:16:59.280It will only be whether they have been made clean by the blood of the Lamb, just like me, just like you.
00:17:05.780So when we deny individuals accountability because they are black, when we won't hold them to the same standards and we use white people or the system as a scapegoat,
00:17:15.480we actually deny their humanity, their God-given ability to choose, and we ultimately obscure their need for a savior and thereby pervert the gospel.
00:17:32.500This is something that we talked about a lot in 2020.
00:17:36.080People who would excuse rioting and looting and arson because the perpetrators were black.
00:17:41.900People who would only care about a story when the victim was black and the perpetrator was white.
00:17:46.440People who, say, didn't have any public lament when Eliza Fletcher just a few months ago was kidnapped and murdered by a black man in Memphis.
00:17:55.840One incident in a string of similar kidnappings there, but who called for a national reckoning in a case like this.
00:18:02.480People who ignore the instances of similar black-on-black crime happening every single day at rates wildly disproportionate to their population size,
00:18:10.820but speak up when a news story enables them to push their talking points.
00:18:15.560People who don't even know, much less speak the names of Justine Damon, Tony Tempa, or Daniel Shaver
00:18:21.240because they're white people murdered by the police as if God cares about their lives less.
00:18:26.520Pastors and Christian influencers having two different messages for their audience based on their ethnicity.
00:18:31.760Tough talk about the sin of racism to white folks and just apologies to black folks.
00:19:23.000And if you call on him as father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile.
00:19:36.280But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
00:19:47.880You see how much God cares about just the facts at hand when it comes to weighing a case of right and wrong?
00:19:57.460Don't show favoritism to the poor or to the rich, he says, but judge people in righteousness.
00:20:03.540Look at the truth, at the facts, not at their status.
00:20:07.480God judges impartially according to our deeds, 1 Peter says.
00:20:11.720God, godly wisdom is open to reason and impartial, James says, is not showing favoritism to one group because you think that their ancestors have been historically oppressed or because you believe that maybe they exist in some kind of unfair system because of their melanin count.
00:20:29.040You don't show them favoritism or go softer on them when it comes to determining right or wrong.
00:20:36.600We don't have time to get into it now, but you'll remember from 2020 how we talked about what I call God's four attributes of justice that we see over and over again throughout the Old Testament.
00:20:48.760Truthful, proportional, direct, and impartial.
00:20:53.100These are all characteristics that we see of God's law giving to ancient Israel that we would do well to apply to our understanding of justice today.
00:21:02.180The exact opposite, actually, of social justice in many ways.
00:21:05.440Thomas Chatterton Williams is a writer for The Atlantic.
00:21:09.920He's very heterodox, I think, and his view is very interesting.
00:21:13.440And he had a good response to the assertion that black police officers killed a black man because of white people's racism.
00:21:22.800He said, what if, stay with me, these five men were actually agents responsible for their own reprehensible actions and not merely hapless puppets being manipulated by the invisible hand of inescapable,
00:21:35.000omnipotent, omnipotent, white supremacy?
00:21:36.400I don't know if Williams is a Christian.
00:21:38.940I don't think he means this to make a theological point, but it does.
00:21:42.080This, again, superstitious assertion that there is essentially a ghost of white supremacy always lurking around and spooking black people into being mean to other black people robs these men, robs people of their agency.
00:21:58.660You can say whatever you want about policing in America and there are things to be said, but these men could have made another choice and they didn't.
00:22:08.600That's what the law must hold them accountable for.
00:22:10.820That is what God will hold them accountable for.
00:22:13.080And there will be people who hear this and say, oh, why are you being divisive?
00:22:28.580You, who made this about whiteness, you decided to make a man's brutal death about your bogus racial narrative instead of addressing the actual situation and proposing real solutions.
00:22:42.800You used this man's death to push your agenda.
00:22:46.400You fit his murder into your preconceived narrative, fit him into your politics, placed him as a bow in your quiver for the culture war when you made this about whiteness.
00:22:59.260Instead of looking at the situation as it is, you said, yeah, but how can I make this about white supremacy even when a white person was nowhere to be found?
00:23:07.280And you want to lecture anyone else about empathy and division?
00:23:14.260I'm tired of you sowing discord in the body through your worldly ideologies and then accusing anyone who calls you out on it an enemy of unity.
00:23:30.620We don't buy the lie that whiteness made them do it.
00:23:34.220So for those of us living in reality, actually more interested in protecting lives than pushing some kind of crazy academic narrative that helps no one, let us actually address this question.
00:23:47.900Well, there are multiple reports now saying these men were hired after Memphis PD relaxed job requirements for the sake of diversity.
00:24:00.220Tadarius Bean and Demetrius Haley both joined the Memphis Police Department in August 2020.
00:24:06.460NBC News reported more than two years after the department dramatically loosened the education qualifications to become an officer.
00:24:14.860Recruits no longer needed an associate's degree or 54 college credit hours to join the force and could get by with five years of work experience, Action 5 reported.
00:24:23.980The department showed signs of struggle with recruiting new police officers offering $15,000 signing bonuses in 2021 and 2022.
00:24:32.660Fox 13 reported last year, the department lowered its standards again for new recruits nixing the timed physical ability test in cutting college education requirements from 54 credit hours to just 24.
00:24:46.100The department also revealed that it was even offering waivers for people who have been convicted on felony charges.
00:25:00.600Now, to be honest, I feel for the department.
00:25:03.620I'm sure it is tough to get officers right now.
00:25:05.920I mean, what person who is well qualified also for a non-police job would want to enter the force right now?
00:25:13.980I know that there are plenty out there, plenty of you listening and your husbands, and I thank God for that.
00:25:19.620But there are a ton of would-be great, honorable, effective police officers who look at the scrutiny even good officers face and say, no, it's not worth it.
00:25:28.560That, on top of putting your life on the line every day, no thanks.
00:25:33.040So a lot of departments have to lower their standards.
00:25:36.260In the case of Memphis, it wasn't just to get new recruits.
00:25:40.900It was reportedly to get Black recruits because we constantly hear this, representation matters.
00:25:46.420That's what DEI training constantly tells us.
00:25:49.780So they have a Black female police chief.
00:25:55.240Most of the city council in Memphis is Black.
00:25:57.880And the theory has always been, well, that's going to alleviate tensions, put more Black people in power, fill the police force with diversity that's going to relieve the oppression of Black people.
00:26:10.580But as we pointed out earlier, Black officers inflicting violence on Black people happens, apparently isn't all that rare.
00:26:18.100So Memphis really got nothing good out of that deal.
00:26:22.100And this has been going on for a while.
00:26:24.240I received a message from a follower who said that they went through training with the Memphis Police Department in 2010.
00:26:32.120So 13 years ago, he said that even then, they weren't giving them adequate training, that they gave them like a couple jujitsu lessons and told them, well, that's about it.
00:26:42.100You're going to have to get more training beyond this.
00:26:44.600Didn't train them on how to deal with unruly suspects.
00:26:51.480Now, apparently, police officers don't even have to pass any fitness standards.
00:26:57.600And women are being recruited for the same positions that men are in the name of inclusion and equity, I'm sure, but also probably in the name of desperation.
00:27:05.180And if there's any city in the country, maybe more than Chicago or L.A. or New York or Philly even, that needs actual good policing, it is Memphis, Tennessee.
00:27:14.220Parts of Memphis have been dangerous for a very long time, but the pockets of safety there are getting smaller and smaller.
00:27:21.540And 2020 showed us what demonizing and defunding the police departments did.
00:27:25.880Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, New York, Austin, etc.
00:27:28.440All of these blue cities, crime, violence, murder, all went up.
00:27:32.260How'd those BLM and TIFA autonomous zones work out?
00:27:35.360Oh, yeah, they ended in murder of a 16-year-old.
00:27:42.760Oh, yeah, and the deaths of innocent people, including an eight-year-old little girl in Atlanta named Sequoia Turner that was shot by a writer in the parking lot of a Wendy's.
00:27:52.820It ended in the destruction of poor, mostly black communities.
00:27:56.000How did BLM end up working out for the communities they said that they were fighting for?
00:27:59.680Oh, yeah, and funneling millions of dollars to the founders and doing nothing for people.
00:28:06.040This is what happens when you blame everything on whiteness and on the system, rather than looking at each evil situation as it comes and trying to figure out what were the real motivations?
00:28:19.420What were the real factors that went into this?
00:28:21.740What changes can we make to stop that from happening?
00:28:24.280It's real convenient to always say that everything is the problem of whiteness because there's never any real solution for it except that you need to keep on reading that person's books, keep on hiring that person to speak, keep on doing that person's program, just keep doing the work and paying the money and spending the time.
00:28:45.020There's never any concrete, immediate steps to be taken because it's not about change.
00:28:54.900It is about political activism and power.
00:28:59.840The reality is that we need to fund, rigorously train and weed out the police, drop the DEI training everywhere, but especially police departments, drop the representation quotas, quit the criminal justice quotas,
00:29:15.020crap where the law favors criminals over victims, we need to end police unions, controversial, because we need to end public unions, because public unions are unethical, as I've talked about many times, especially teachers unions, and they just seem to breed corruption.
00:29:32.380I do think that there is a lot of corruption in our, there could be a lot of corruption in our police system in different ways across the country, not because of white supremacy, but because you'd be hard pressed to find any government agency that's not corrupt.
00:29:46.520Add to that the level of power, lethal power that the police has, and they're untrained, and they're, I mean, it's just a recipe for disaster.
00:29:55.480It's actually a wonder that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often than it does, and it probably does.
00:29:59.680It just doesn't always get publicized because it's not the right racial makeup for most people in the media to care.
00:30:05.660The police need to be held to extremely high standards while at the same time not being constantly lambasted so that the good officers can do their job.
00:30:15.160These men, in this case, are being tried for murder good.
00:30:22.180If it were up to me, if found guilty of premeditated intentional murder, because there are actually some, like, conversations going on within Memphis right now that this was actually, like, a personal vendetta between one of the officers and this guy.
00:30:38.120Like, if this was a premeditated thing that makes it even worse, they should get the death penalty.
00:30:57.640Well, if you're going to intentionally murder a defenseless human being, then I don't see why you shouldn't get the death penalty.
00:31:05.480As for Tyree Nichols, I mourn for him.
00:31:08.940I think about how much he suffered in those moments, how much he suffered for those three days in the hospital when the doctors couldn't save him.
00:31:14.860I mourn for his family, his mom, who has to think for the rest of her life about the pain and the fear that he went through.
00:31:23.180That's the worst, worst, worst, worst thing that could happen to you as a mother.
00:31:28.060His family will be haunted by this long past this new cycle, so we need to think of them and pray for them as well past the politics and the arguments about it all.
00:31:38.760But we also need to make sure that we as Christians are thinking about these situations in a clear-headed biblical way.
00:34:05.360So here he is winning the Australian Open after being told last year, sorry, you can't play because you won't take this jab that you don't need.
00:35:02.580I mean, honestly, praise God for that.
00:35:04.700And then these pictures were circulating on Twitter, which I just got a good chuckle out of.
00:35:10.380And it's Bill Gates, who was at the Australian Open, watching Djokovic win.
00:35:18.840And obviously, we know that Bill Gates, big supporter, developer of these vaccines.
00:35:25.660And he's just, if you're listening to this, he's just sitting there, like, not cheering and kind of with his mouth set, like, upset about it.
00:35:37.460Now, to be fair, I don't know if they, if, like, this really captured the moment.
00:35:44.160Like, his expression, I don't really know if they captured Bill Gates' expression at the moment that Djokovic won.
00:35:51.380These are just, like, pictures that they paired together, probably just to make a point.
00:35:56.440But pretty funny, like, the irony there.
00:35:59.640Also, like, the picture of health in Djokovic, someone who didn't get the vaccine yet is completely and totally healthy, would probably fare better with COVID than someone like Bill Gates, who was looking more and more like the Michelin man.
00:36:11.980All right, so that story of success, incompetence, and excellence, and working hard, things that are often, I think, demonized increasingly in our culture.
00:36:30.240A 59-year-old farmer from Finland who uses the name Minna Maria, Minna Maria Antike Kanin, sorry, don't know how to pronounce that, performed at the opening ceremony of the European Figure Skating Championships in Espoo this week.
00:36:47.560He said it was to fulfill a childhood dream of being an ice princess.
00:36:57.440Of course, he goes by she, her showing off his skates.
00:37:01.300I mean, that's just a dainty ice princess, if you've ever seen one.
00:37:08.500So, uh, this is at the, uh, 2023 European Championships.
00:37:13.380For some reason, they had this person, this man who pretends to not just be a woman, but pretends to be a girl, like a princess.
00:37:22.220Yes, that's a theme, keep that in mind, as we've talked about many times, decided to have him skate, I guess, in the opening ceremony in front of everyone.
00:37:35.120And honestly, no one, no one can figure out why.
00:38:00.400I mean, if this were just, like, an old man or an old woman or a special needs person going out there and they were just trying to, you know, help them fulfill their dreams and that person fell, I think that would be really sad.
00:38:14.440But why does this person have special status?
00:38:16.840Because he's a man who likes to wear makeup and call himself an ice princess and wear a skirt.
00:38:23.200Like, it's kind of opening my eyes to why some people, like, treat this group the way that they do.
00:38:28.600Do you see them as having special needs or something?
00:38:31.780Like, is that why you elevate them to this point?
00:38:34.000Like, would you ever put any other kind of person out on the rink like that who clearly cannot skate?
00:38:40.180Like, if you were just listening to this, he literally just, like, fell and sat on his knees and just, like, sat there until an actual skater had to come up there with the Finnish flag and, like, help him up.
00:38:53.960I mean, I do feel sad for this person.
00:39:10.900They chose someone who decided to transition recently, transition, quote unquote, and who decided to take up skating recently to go out there and embarrass himself and embarrass his country.
00:39:24.420What is wrong with you, what is wrong with you people?
00:39:28.880But this is not his first stellar performance.
00:41:05.020So a lot of you have been asking me about this new statue that was placed on a New York, an appellate courthouse statue.
00:41:16.080Apparently, the statue is supposed to be an ode to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and is a statement on abortion rights.
00:41:27.240So if you're watching this, you see this gold statue.
00:41:30.560And the first thing that comes to mind is that it's demonic.
00:41:33.600If you've seen other kinds of like demonic depictions, it's kind of this hybrid typically between like a human and a ram or some other kind of animal.
00:42:02.240If you're going to make an ode to so-called abortion rights and an ode to killing unborn children, then, of course, you're going to make it look demonic.
00:42:13.740The artist, Pakistani-American Shazia Sikander, said the sculpture was part of an urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New York, along with cities across the world, and reconsiders traditional representations of power in public spaces and recasts civic structures to better reflect 21st century mores.
00:42:35.700Yeah, it does definitely reflect more of our cultural values today.
00:42:42.760And that is the worship of Satan and submission to evil and the love of child sacrifice.
00:42:53.000And so this is absolutely an appropriate representation of, I think, certainly where New York has gone, but where many people in the United States have gone.
00:43:02.220Now, if you look at other statues that are on this particular courthouse, this beautiful statue, it's supposed to be a statue of truth,
00:43:11.840a statue that represents impartiality of wisdom.
00:43:19.480You can see that they've got their books there and all of the symbolism.
00:43:23.000I mean, that is what art used to be, just a representation of virtue, of actual beauty.
00:43:30.440This is what an actual human being looks like.
00:43:32.460This is what a formidable woman looks like.
00:43:36.220Supposed to represent values that we would like to uphold, like honor, not satanic values, like murder.
00:43:43.820And then we also see here, we see this other statue, which is supposed to be a depiction of wisdom.
00:43:52.840As you can see, he is consulting what I supposed to be the scriptures, or at least the wisdom of old.
00:44:06.640You can see wisdom inscribed at the front of the statue.
00:44:12.340This person is supposed to be depicting the care and the caution that goes into making judicial decisions.
00:44:21.080And then you also have a statue that represents force.
00:44:24.080I would guess this means law enforcement.
00:46:19.520They replace beauty and goodness and light and grace and wisdom with its opposites continually.
00:46:28.080And then they get mad when you don't clap.
00:46:30.840They're in the business of perversion and the business of depravity.
00:46:34.920And like if you see people who go from being like they're like, hey, yeah, I was a Christian and I was like you see these tick tocks all the time.
00:46:45.240There's like, yeah, I, you know, I was a Christian, but secretly I was suppressing my sexuality or I was suppressing my activism.
00:46:51.720And then you see what they look like after they become the secular progressives.
00:46:56.520Now, I'm not saying that I'm not saying that they are actually like innately ugly, like their faces are ugly, but they have chosen to take on ugly characteristics.
00:47:11.820You never see a glow up of someone going from being like in a stable state, in a stable position, like Christian, conservative, whatever, to being progressive and looking better.
00:47:24.100They just always look like they've been destroyed or in disarray.
00:47:27.800There was this also this Burberry ad going around and it is it's two people.